It’s Your Turn!

Now it’s time for you to write a Brady’s Touch. Here are a few suggestions to get you started:

Begin by writing your thoughts out in prose or free verse. Feel free to go long at this stage. This is your free-thought stage.

On a separate sheet of paper (or page, if you write on your computer), rewrite the prose or free verse in the form of a Brady’s Touch.

Be silly, sad, sappy, or serious, your choice. There is no restriction on theme or mood.

And of course, when you are finished, please share it with us.

Don’t know how? Follow these simple steps…

Write your blog post.

Include the tag Decastich Challenge or 10LPC

Include a pingback/link to this post in your post so I can find you.

Publish your post.

Dig Deeper

To find more samples and to learn from those who taught me, check out these sites. All links open in a separate tab so you can easily find your way back here.

Poet’s Collective ~ The forms on this website are not organized in alphabetical order, but he does have at least one sample poem for each form, he even has tags for rhyme scheme. He also has a visual template for every form so you can see the rhyme scheme and stress patterns, as applicable. That is extremely helpful.

Sol Magazine ~ This resource covers much more than just 10-line poems.

“Metric Forms from Pathways for the Poet” ~ This is an outline of information from Pathways for the Poet by Viola Berg (1977), a book for and by educators. This resource also includes more than just 10-line poems, but it helped to fill in the gaps where my other sources were a bit scanty with their information.

Shadow Poetry ~ This is my favorite resource for learning about poetic forms (and not just the decastich), but I have discovered that there is ever so much more to learn than what I can find here. This is, however, a very good place to start.